Lecturer, Baroque Oboe, Historical Performance
Marc Schachman was born in Berkeley, California, and attended Stanford University and the Juilliard School, where he was awarded the BS, MS, and the DMA degrees. One of the world’s leading performers on early oboes, Mr. Schachman is a founding member of some of America’s foremost period instrument chamber groups—The Aulos Ensemble (1973), The Amadeus Winds (1983), and The Helicon Winds (1994). He has performed as principal oboist and soloist with virtually all of this country’s “original instrument” orchestras, including Philharmonia Baroque (San Francisco); Handel and Haydn Society and Boston Baroque (Boston); The American Classical Orchestra (New York); the Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra (Washington, DC); and Santa Fe Pro Musica. His numerous recordings on historical oboes cover a wide variety of styles and genres, and include the Mozart Oboe Quartet and Bach Cantatas (Harmonia Mundi); the Mozart Oboe Concerto (Musicmasters); concerti and chamber music of Bach, Handel, Telemann, and Vivaldi with the Aulos Ensemble (MHS/Musicmasters); Bach’s Brandenburg Concerti and B Minor Mass (Telarc); wind music of Mozart and Beethoven (L’Oiseau Lyre, Sony); and most recently, the Schumann Romances for oboe and piano (Helicon), which the New York Times described as “pure magic.” Mr. Schachman taught for many years at Vassar College and at the Baroque Performance Institute at Oberlin College, and is currently on the faculty of the School of Music at Boston University. He has given workshops and master classes at the Juilliard School and the Curtis Institute of Music, and at colleges and universities throughout the US. He has performed at festivals worldwide, including Spoleto, Edinburgh, Goettingen, Perth, Tanglewood, Ravinia, Caramoor, and Mostly Mozart. On the modern oboe, Mr. Schachman performs with the New York Chamber Soloists and the Orchestra of St. Lukes.